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- Subject: Re: Linux file systems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.154557.1@mars.slu.edu>
- From: jesse@mars.slu.edu
- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:45:57 CST
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- In article <1993Jan22.052102.17563@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>, bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes:
- > In article <93021.073006NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET> Greg Wettstein <NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET> writes:
- >>[asks for a filesystem "clean" flag indicating the system was
- >> shutdown normally the last time this filesystem was used.]
- >>...
- >>I would suspect that an ioctl or a kernel call would have to be implemented
- >>which when called would mark all mounted filesystems that had this
- >>attribute as clean. The reboot/halt/shutdown suites could be modified to
- >>sync the kernel, then mark the filesystems and then either halt or reboot.
- >
- > I think the "umount()" system call should do this. Shutdown already
- > umounts() all mounted filesystems so this will work with everything except
- > the root filesystem. Personally, I'm not sure it is such a bad idea to
- > force a check of the root filesystem anyway. So being unable to use this
- > "trick" with the root filesystem might not be such a bad thing.
- >
- > Bill Bogstad
-
- Good idea, What about a '-a' option that us paranoid system managers could
- add to the startup files so that it would fsck ALL file systems. (I guess I
- just dont trust these new fangled computer things ;-)
-
- jesse
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